Two gendarmes were killed Wednesday morning in an armed attack against a gendarmerie checkpoint at the entrance of the English-speaking city of Bamenda in Cameroon, Bbcafrique informs.
According to the local press, a group of activists in the "heavily armed" Anglophone cause attacked a checkpoint in the town of Bamenda, guarded by gendarmes and policemen, on Tuesday night. Governor of the English-speaking region of North-West Cameroon."The Marshal Himna René in service to the company of Bafia but detached in Bamenda and the pupil Sani David in training at Camp Yayap (Yaounde) also on detachment in Bamenda in the context of the Anglophone crisis, were fatally hit by bullets and subsequently succumbed to their injuries in the night of Tuesday, "said the governor, Adolphe Lele Lafrique.
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Already last Monday, another gendarme was killed in Jakiri locality by another group of activists trying to close a school.
The English-speaking region of North West has been under intense tension for a few weeks, with the revival of the dead city from Monday to Wednesday each week by English-speaking activists.
Radical separatists demand that businesses and schools remain closed until the Anglophone crisis is resolved.
